baseball

My grandparents got me the best birthday present imaginable. Using her connections with a leading architectural firm in the city, my grandmother gave me four box seat tickets to a Pirates game the weekend before my twelfth birthday. It is hard to imagine in these times but my mother drove my nine year-old brother, my […]

In October of 1979 I was serving as a weapons platoon leader with the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas. We were on the second day of a four-day field problem in the far corner of the post. The weather was kicking up an early taste of winter as I rode in my jeep […]